New quango sets sights on failure?

July 09

Mr Michael Martin

Balls-up: Schools white paper starkly highlights inefficiency and futility of public provision

June 09

Stopped and Searched

Speaker ballot: Am I bovvered?

"M" is for "Max"

On the AVes and AV-nots

Common Sense - in memoriam Thomas Paine

The Big Questions - Lib Dem on education

OffRAMP - The watcher of the watchmen?

Parliament (Dissolute) Bill 2009 [HC] (Amendment)

Changing Chancellors...a question

May 09

Blog's back...

Whensoever therefore the legislative (or the House of Common Thieves and Accomplices) shall transgress...

Democracy itself, rather than the BNP, is the problem

Troughing - it's what we voted for!

One is not enough

Reformation Britain: The Sovereignty of All Citizens

MPs' Expenses while councillors fiddle

Gurkha resettlement: only the tip of a very ugly mountain of discrimination

April 09

29.04.09: Budget Live-Blogging - Unemployment, Development, Agiculture and Roads

People's Budget Day

Breaking radio silence...

Herbert, Ludvig, Murray, Friedrich and Vince

Laugh? I nearly died...BBC Correspondent Nick Robinson Missing

March 09

"Never have so few been attacked so much by so many"

Tax havens are such old hat...

Taxing the rich - Fraser's error

Environmentalism - the new sky fairy?

Monetary Reform and G20

No - not the champion of civil liberties

For Jim Murphy and Vince Cable

Lib Dems on financial regulation - Swimming against the tide

Conference reports - spot the deliberate mistake

Selective education

Repute and Disrepute

Quake, California! The Prime Minister has said it is unacceptable...

No wonder Big Brother is worried

Where are the adventurous young bankers (II)?

Where are the adventurous young bankers?

Freddy and Gordo; same side of the problem

February 09

The "War on Bankers"

General Election: March 26th or June 4th?

Cabinet war papers: stupid tactics

Rambling elsewhere for 21st February 2009

Liberalism: we can't win the five wars without fighting the four battles

Remember the anti-war march?

Milliband on Wilders

Rambling elsewhere for 10th to 20th February 2009

Clegg slandering libertarians?

Which to hang: Blair or Milliband?

No Mick: One we predicted earlier

Liberator: Ignorant, Conformist and Poverty of Vision

Why do we bother making policy, Don?

Credit Crunch: a chain reaction starting at Number 11?

How the state corrupts the "free" market

Money secrecy: the last taboo?

The Third Sector, Fake Charities and Libertarianism

Campaigning issue: A "Good Samaritan Act" for Britain?

Rambling elsewhere for 8th & 9th February 2009

I don't want to believe...

25 Things

UPDATED: Central planning

You don't know how lucky you are boy

UPDATED: Who is the real Nutt?

Rambling elsewhere for 7th February 2009

Why I don't "tweet"*

British Jobs for British Workers?

Against uniformity

There is no such thing as a safe horse

Half a million people in the UK use it...

Rambling elsewhere for 6th February 2009

What did the Royal National Institute for the Blind mean...

Now this...

On being "dropped" by Kellogg

Rambling elsewhere for 5th February 2009

Inner Space

It's the end of the world as we know it...

"Rambling Elsewhere" and Atom Feeds

Rambling elsewhere for 4th February 2009

Torture

Cannabis: the evil weed?

Liberty Central? Don't make me laugh!

Rambling elsewhere for 3rd February 2009

Rambling elsewhere for 2nd February 2009

Oxford City Council II: Can't even sell the silver properly

Oxford City Council breaks uneasy ceasefire with Covered Market

Some little ramblings for the day...

My "Political Spectrum" objections

A few words for Gordon Brown

Dave's Dubious Davos Dialectic

January 09

Heath-row

Bush, Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke: Anything but capitalists

Euro: We should tell 'em where to stick it, Nick

Ask not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.

A new Financial Operating System - an Open Source alternative.

Any CSS experts out there?

All shook up

December 08

OX1 was wrong from the start, but returning to council is even worse

The Minister for Drugs (Legalization, Regulation and Taxation thereof)

Smoking...dirty, disgusting and...embarrassing

Suffolk police harrass 134 innocent people

Land and Libertarians

Useit, or usury? How much debt are you paying off?

November 08

Internet Outlaws

Baby P: where are the others?

Imagine that: Government in "making matters worse" shock!

Libertarians: torch bearers for big business?

Repent! For the end of the state is nigh!

October 08

Paying for Higher Education

Libertarian Alliance Conference, 2008 (Part II)

If you speed...

Libertarian Alliance Conference, 2008 (part I)

For those of you who think you know all there is to know about libertarianism because neo-liberal Ronald Reagan said...

Say hello to the "Community Finance Partnership"

Ministerial mendacity

Degrees of Mutualism

Nothing to hide, sir? Ooh! Suits you sir...

Discontent on Lib Dem benches?

The 61 TRILLION dollar question

Land. Value. Tax.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be...

Are drink drive laws liberal?

Which day will be our October 24th

A government of all the talents?

September 08

Mutual Ownership and the house price downturn

Isn't this just a little bit scary?

Private charity, voluntary co-operation or state welfare

Politicians: masters, or servants? And of whom?

2% of pound coins are fake? Big whoopie do!

Short selling

Three hundred years of lies, confidence tricks and outright fraud...

The Greenpeace Defense

A Legal Challenge

Blogging update...

August 08

Helicopter to snoop on speeders

Blogging will be light to non-existent...

Labour at odds over football plan

"Corporatisation" of government functions does not transfer responsibility

The internet, think-tanks and politicians

The BR Brute Squad

Why should the state validate your existence?

Olympic Spin: Jamaica on top, China in 45th

How should our details be protected?

First they took away Habeas Corpus...

BAA: Wrong Monopoly

Hari's Game: not even in the right ballpark

Oxford of a million minds: a bit of fun

"Cities Unlimited": who would be an economics boffin?

E's linked to schizophrenia risk

Olympic ideals?

Libertarian councillor and blogger under fire!

Jock's Top Ten

Is this Oxford Labour's "double devolution"?

ID Cards: BT Homehub supplier gets first contract

Today is the centenary of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1908

July 08

Glasgow East, Safe Seat - why Labour lost and the SNP didn't really win it.

Calling councillors whose authorities use the "Uniform Public Access" planning application system...

It depresses the hell out of me...

Quelle Surprise: if you're a rich influential crackhead...

Gordon Brown: no mere human?

Land Tax and Citizens Income - further discussion...

Response to some comments on "Unconditional Benefits"

Unconditional benefits: now is the time to smash that "cosy consensus"

Iris Robinson, parliament and the Standards Board

Sarkozy's scheme two years behind Jock's!

Beginning of the end for VAT?

Education: chacun a son gout?

So farewell then, Morrell Hall

Fannie, Freddie, Africa and Europe in context

Co-op Group Somerfield disposals; an idea

Tax policy: one I made earlier

Guardian Friday Politics Quiz...is this right?

Plagiarising policies

If society is broken, it's only following its "leaders"

Data protection and the inexorable march of the snooping state

Fannie and Freddie expose fragile financial fabric

The knife is innocent; don't blame the knife!

Five Giants

Liberal Cornwall? The "Golden Triangle" tarnishes

Criminally Ridiculous Bureaucracy!

Appropriate and proportionate?

First there were "ants in your pants"...

Which region elected this Tory tosspot?

For any of you that believe "if you've got nothing to hide..."

Y I H8 G8

Liverpool and the 1793 Credit Crunch

Glasgow East: Blasted by the past?

From a Roman convert to his Anglican cousins...

Oxford Business Improvement District rejected

Second most interesting tree hacked to pieces

Protectionist Tory euro-snoopers

Silverstone: who should I be supporting?

Not enough power...

June 08

NHS: When I'm Sixty-Four

Gender equality in universities - EducationGuardian.co.uk

David Davis is the sort of person...

My Haltemprice and Howden connection

All quiet on the Western (EU) Front?

What a topsy turvey upside down world...Roy Jenkins he is not!

Congratulations, Councillor Mark Mills!

DUP - "The Undertakers of every Government"

Are you a "death enabler"?

If I *were* thinking of joining the Libertarian Party...

Three wise women

Dear Andrew: 42 days

Is non-intrusive road pricing possible?

Is the ban on "topping up" NHS treatment even legal...

Surveillance State: Select Committee catches on ten years too late?

42 days again: just who are all these people?

Will Vote for Food?

Let the train take the strain...not!

Rainy reflections...

Noye's Fludde?

Save the Stoke One

Spinning towards revolution?

May 08

URGENT - Conference Motion: Unfinished business

By-by-by-election

Jock's response: The positive case for negative campaigning

Quote needed...

Did I say never?

Never say never again?

April 08

Why you should vote Jock Coats, Liberal Democrat, on May 1st

Jock on drugs...

Two local examples of why land (and planning) reform is needed

Incentive to win? Or definition of insanity?

Being the "local candidate" at last!

New directorship

The supreme sacrifice?

Feel the fear...

42: Now what was the question?

March 08

Cardinal "Frankenstein" Keith

Getting around the drugs laws?

Labour's local election confusion

Protection or Free Trade - Tories debate

Conceived in iniquity, born in sin

A good budget for...

ALTERnative strategies

Drugs and deadly sins: unbiblical and unchristian

Housing policy: backing a lost cause!

Bread-heads and social enterprises

Vince Cable: some regrets but no splits

Economics as if people mattered

Facing both ways - the Tories needed someone else to blame for not having a referendum on Lisbon.

Q: When is a druggie not a druggie?

Is the Starving Man Free?

February 08

Jacqui Smith: how many have you condemned to death today?

The future's free, or very, very bleak indeed

Ricardo’s Law - The Great Tax Clawback Scam

Liechtenstolen

Habeas (the tiniest little bit of my) corpus

Evan harries the invincible Cable

Work-blog balance

Any twitterers out there - help me identify this bird?

January 08

Tory selection processes

Is there a point at which Liberal Democrats should want to leave the European Union?

Tony Blair: unwitting libertarian champion, or psychopath?

Yes, but it's our "thin air"

Something for nothing?

Call to prayer controversy - the truth is stranger...

Data loss, Clegg and politics - hanging the wrong problem on the right hook

Private Education and charitable status

Redesign, now with added "bling"

Ticket Reselling

The real "Liberal Conspiracy" starts here

Workfair - a question

Energy Islands

Slow blogging again

Manifesto Conference - to go or not?

Burma: Still fighting for independence

Faith based schools - a personal perspective

New Year's Resolution?

Shareware - the future of Intellectual Property?

December 07

No "LVT bug" I!

What has humanity done to deserve politics?

A new look for Christmas!

Oxford's rats in second division

But the trouble with "economic liberalism"...

The whole rationale of "economic liberalism"...

First they came for the Scientologists...

Finally, a ballot paper, and a moan at the world!

Managing Protest Around Parliament

Our man in Kabul?

Iran: not quite as mad as the Mullahs were made out to be.

Oxbridge Academies: history repeating itself?

Labour "Guinness Four" moment?

November 07

Financing politicians - it's our democracy that needs reforming

Brilliant, Vince...

Bargain!

Revolutionary Liberalism: 5 - The "Sovereign Individual"

A good day to mislay an MEP

Karim defection a blow for Nick Clegg?

Now available in China?

Evading responsibility, Oxford style

Kamm on Huhne's Nukes

A rare opportunity to disagree with James Graham!

That data, those cards and data protection, nuclear style

Three good reasons...

Now Clegg prolongs the spat

Do I look bovvered? The Blogs are the losers!

Peter Stothard: Lib Dem Alexis Rowell "genuinely represents"

Revolutionary Liberalism: 4 - "An unprecedented opportunity"

Carma

Cameron's vacuous localism

Conservatives, co-operators, war or peace?

"Conservative Co-operative" - a confidence trick?

Does Britain really only have one "neo-con"?

Bridge tolls and land values

Nick Clegg on Affordable Housing and LVT

If the left wants to rediscover their liberal roots, we should welcome them back!

Chris Huhne, Torygraph, Surveillance State non-story

Revolutionary Liberalism: 3 - Health, wealth and happiness

October 07

Huhne manifesto launch

Interruption of service - for some of you

Clegg-vision, and an apology

One poll doesn't make a trend but...

Landlord licensing

Jock elsewhere, green-blogging for Chris

Euro-ballot bonkers - lift the gag!

What a difference the Green Party makes!

Could there be a Lib Dem Granita pact?

Localising policy making

ID Cards - companies to target

Right vs Left; Protectionism vs Free Trade; Clegg vs Huhne?

The best reason for voting no in an EU referendum?

South Central Regional Conference: Community Land Trusts, Land Value Tax and Affordable Housing policy

Jonathan Matondo, 16: More young blood on the hands of the prohibitionists

Extend the timetable, widen the field; a "Two Horse Race" is not always a good thing!

Spooks: promoting the human face of recognition software

Bloggers for Chris redux

Protectionism of marriage

Shelter Chief Exec on Land Value Tax and Home Ownership

Revolutionary Liberalism: 2 - Reinventing the State

Dave's Uncreative Conservative Futurology

Repealing the People's Budget

Devolution and Local Income Tax - Simon Jenkins in praise of Lib Dems

So much for socialism, Daahling!

Revolutionary Liberalism: 1 - Leadership

Low tax Tories? Don't make me laugh!

For 'tis the sport to have the Telegraph hoist with its own petard...

Now there's time to become revolutionary liberals

If it's so bad, why not abolish the Council Tax, Eric?

Spare a thought for the poor APMs

Milton Friedman on Prohibition and Drugs

Free Burma!

Political Influences meme

Arguments for and against inheritance tax

Nick Clegg on Telegraph's list of 100 most influential figures on the "right"

General Erection

September 07

Test trackback

Discovering Trackbacks

Rock may be solvent but where's the money come from?

The state of learning: universities teach "three Rs"

Things I don't understand: chewing gum disposal

Tories to bite the hand that feeds them?

Catching Lambeth's Liars?

Come on Dave, get Gideon to tell us which taxes you'll cut...

Pimms - a gateway drug?

Tories, "green taxes" and the "poor"

Ten years; a life changing decision

Oops - standby for another Tory bloomer?

Alcohoodies: is "local-ism" the answer?

Coalition for the nation?

Putting the genie back in the bottle

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of fear of crime

Cameron makes case for all-elected second chamber; "Lady" Warsi

August 07

Finally! plain speaking on drugs and gangs in the MSM

Funeral arrangements for Brian Hodgson

Why I find this Tory crap abhorrent...

Landing slots, air taxes and BAA monopoly

Paying for education

Incentives to form mixed status neighbourhoods

We'd have enough prison places if we worked out who the real criminals are

Oh Polly, how right you are!

Born free?

DNA - did Lynne really say this?

Labour MP puts activists on alert for election

Death of a favourite wonk

How government policy killed Rhys Jones just as surely as any Croxteth "gangland" scrote.

Oxford deserves better than unholy alliance of naive council and rent-seeking landowners

Pete Doherty

The Times doesn't get PR

A sad loss to Oxfordshire politics: Brian Hodgson

Alcohoodies: not all police are the same

Candidate vetting

Whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man...

Listen carefully: I will say this only once. "Well done the Greens"

Inheritance tax: of course we should abolish it

City and Country: Response for James Graham

Ecto 3 Alpha

Cutting the Red-wood Tape

The source of all freedoms?

A wunch of bankers...

July 07

Neo-puritanism: one I predicted earlier

Barclays' new sugar daddies

Jenkins again: It doesn't take a genius to know the war on drugs has failed...

Pledge support for private prosecution on cash for honours?

Don't believe everything you read in the papers

Neo-puritanism: a Liberal opportunity

Cannabis proof: I was wrong, says Jock

Prohibition versus Liberalism

If everyone at Westminster jerked...

One I missed: Simon Jenkins on Land Value Tax

Sainsbury's: what do Qataris want with our supermarkets?

Creep, creep, creep

Creep, creep

Still homophobes too, quelle surprise!

Tory hypocrites on booze and bongs...

Housing, housing, housing? No, it's location, location, location that matters, Gordon!

More affordable housing? Not on our tax policies!

Cable and Campbell invoke the Wizard

Conservatives copulating in the street?

Telegraph's Land Tax posers

So much for "stewardship"

Bite the bullet, ban the booze

The biggest frauds go unpunished - and we are all victims

Conservatives and the BNP

Hutton's half-baked housing answers

If in doubt, ban it...or why Tories are not for libertarians

A journey through libertarian anarchism

Higher Education Market

The romance of port wine...

Smoking bans and Land Value Tax...

Statistically significant?

June 07

Tearing up the unwritten...

Blair's divine commission

Cable and Osborne and the politics of envy

Brother Tony's penance?

Council tax doubles...compared to what?

Lib Dem MPs greenest vs Cameron's limp withered green fig-leaf

Why can't the ASI espouse Adam Smith's policies?

Could the OFT deliver LVT?

At forty I've only ever known Tony Blair too

How Blair are you?

The ASBO Ball

Pass the bucket! Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, Campbell in "I'm a leader get me into there"

Stand up at the back! Speak up, boy!

From the mouths of babes...

That Brown Meme

Dr Cundum's friendly Aid

Hello everybody!

Joseph Rowntree knew what Ming should have said.

Churchill's "Tax Switch"

Amnesty or salvation?

Is that a yellow rosette on George Osborne?

Ile des Chiens 4min: Gare du Nord 70min

An intelligent idea?

United by a common tongue

Food miles and fruit pickers

Because pregnancy is not an illness

ASI behind the curve on rubbish...

Cameron furious over theft of Lib Dem proposal

New quango sets sights on failure?

More of that Liberator article...

Dale detects disharmony...

Hitch-u-like

Tories create "nice little number" for Tony?

If you put your head above the parapet, Dr MacGregor...

Internet futurology

Plug - Open Capital at The 1909 Group

Monarchy or Republic? Neither, please, I want a Democracy.

The effects of house prices...

Hallelujah!

May 07

Back to the future - 1909-2009

Meeting the Pope

Suss Laws: my pledge

Is this how you'll represent Oxford East, Peter?

Blogging from the wireless tube...

If we pay, Doc, can we have a second opinion?

Defection Elections; what will Mr Cameron say?

March 07

Some sense in the "Swindle"

Being of Independent mind...

The World's Local Loan Sharks

February 07

"Useless and dangerous"

January 07

From an ordinary Catholic to his Catholic Ordinary

Today in US history....state servitude legalized

Tescopoly and rent seeking

Offending overseas and the PNC

Empty new homes scandal - a solution?

TW2? Not!

So much for a good scare story

A bit desperate, Dan?

Web commerce and delivery companies

Community Land Trusts - remember where you heard it first

December 06

Incorporated

I'm back, and in a new home...

November 06

Conference motion: Local devolution, autonomy and innovation

More religion - why would I want such people to have my money?

Britain's Sharia Suburbs

Why we should leave the 'net alone...II

Your share of your party debt is...

Why we need to leave the web alone...

What goes around...

A clear example of how Land Value Tax could help

The problem appears to be with us for the foreseeable future...

Liberal poverty

Why I am not in the 68%

Kaiser Keith on Land Value Tax again

The Road to Serfdom in Five Minutes

My shifting "Political Compass"

It is possible to come back from the left brink!

Starkey's Last Word on drugs

Police on drugs shocker!

In other news - police in new big brother shockers

ACMD call for Ecstasy downgrade

Your petition to the Prime Minister has been approved

Clip joints and city bonuses

Matthew Taylor and the Counter-Reformation

Abolish DCLG petition

Milton Friedman, hijacked by conservatives, fan of drug legalization and land tax

Beer goggles

Sorry Gordo, Ming ought to take the train in future

Think London taxpayers subsidize the rest? Think again, Ricardo says not..

Spooks: in the Aftermath of Stern

The political inheritance

Tax or trade redux: Chris Huhne responds

Land tax versus land release.

Prescott: Don't blame the government...

Harrogate Spring Conference 2007

Would Stunell please join Clegg round the shredder...

Local government, the Oxford way.

Taxing or trading?

Robert Gates

Cherie's new job?

Local government, the American way.

Rumsfeld to take up old hobbies again?

Virginia, I just don't care

Yay! Bernie Sanders, Vermont Progressive Party Senator

Go Bernie!

Something Polly says...

Filming - calling all councillors

Gubernatorial elections

Quick, kill him before he can rat on us

Hmmm...only 60%?

Farepack

Ageism in politics

Non-conformists' balls

Lebanon might be (relatively) peaceful

Rats and sinking ships

Radio 4 Saturday c 18:45

Now with added GDP and Earnings

Money Supply, House Prices, Stocks Exchange Assets, Prices

Reach for the Rioja!

Internet "bill of rights"

October 06

Fireworks

MPC - a monetary alternative?

Monetary Policy Committee finds its true purpose?

Westgate: the irony

Internet Governance Forum

Monkish business

Whisky is dangerous

Adam Smith first Scot to adorn an English banknote?

"Middlesex" toilets?

Talking about burning: no tabs on Tyneside

Spell it out for us please, Caroline.

National Flag Burning Day

The scold's bridle

Taxing booze

Big Bang: my "annus horribilis"?

Defending Friedman

Greg Barker and "Tory Wives"

Stern warning: it's the economic system stupid!

Whose street?

Who's taking their medication?

John Major...squaddies mate?

Intrusive taxmen

Michael Brown: Members liable?

Now children, spread the love

Arma virumque cano

No monomanual man...

Broken

Reefer madness a legal defense?

Read, read! Andrew Phillips

Iain Dale's Diary: EXCLUSIVE: Sir Ian Blair Says New Terror Attack Could Lead to Internment

Cause and effect

The air song.

Can they prove what's dangerous?

And Brookes makes it seventeen...

Got hiccups?

Confidentiality

The prize for "endangering public confidence in local democracy" goes to...

"Any similarity is entirely coincidental"

The Secretary of State for the Survival of Species?

September 06

"If Reid's the alternative..."

A blogging first...

Minimum wage discrimination

Land Tax 97 years on

Labour left in support for Lib Dem Tax plans shocker!

Exercise in planning

Vince steps aside for Jock...

ASDA reborn?

"Kaiser" Keith's courteous correspondence

That pesky "left wing tax"

Gordon: Quangos are not "devolution"

School dinners

"The Man Who Said Too Much"

Just how dangerous?

Manslaughter, or death by dangerous driving?

Conference over: now if you are passing Oxford

Tax Debate: A view from a distance

Even quieter

Radical housing

Nine...

Iran: the new "dodgy dossier"?

A quiet period

£10 million for this - was it worth it?

Another attempt at web censorship

Big Deal Tony

Magistrates and representatives

Thieving bastard

Wouldn't it be fun...

Another Jock idea inches to fruition

Garage site redevelopment

Constitutionally, Mr Blair...

More from Tony's iPod...

Where did it all go wrong Tony?

Hmmm too!

Open Capital Partnerships

August 06

More4: Do not show this at news time!

Things are easy when you're big in Japan

Tax: Who said this?

Social Enterprise 101: More than profit

Copying Cambridge

Planning and Area Committees

Talking rubbish (again)!

Trading with terrorist states.

"A phenomenal capacity to achieve real change"

Mort-gage

Smile boys, that's the style...

Bleeding heads, bureaucracy and brick walls

Science wasn't boring in my day.

eAsier or hArder, no mAtter, A levels need change

Free to Choose

Tax Commission round-up

Terror threats getting you down? Ketamine may be for you!

10/08: The conspiracy theory

Death Penalty for Poles

What I want and "What Muslims Want"

Planes, taxes and automobiles

The only holiday Blair deserves...

Jock's alternative ID cards

Was this why Chai Patel was put up for a peerage?

Fair Trade PCs?

Another Oxford byelection looms

Kennedy's Half Hour Personal Political Broadcast

Procrastination

No, Blair, we haven't misunderstood

Israeli weapons moving via Brize now?

Cable's catering sized can of worms...

Heroin harm

July 06

TOTP Gone

The (silicon) e-chip on my shoulder

Will Hutton - LVT should fill Olympic funding gap

West Wing

"Double devolution" for Oxford now!

Proportionate?

Would EU like any cash-back?

More top Tory tips For Lib Dem Tax Commission

ASBOs a shambles?

Tories' Bow Group tax plans

Bottled water labels

Milliband's money (was "Oh dear Chris...")

Campbell on Israel

The other Zidane

Rites of passage under threat

"Shoulder to shoulder" - pain with no gain

Jock's energy review

I admit, I'm lazy, but I like to invent things...

See - a little Liberal largesse does go a long way

Burn marks

Medical research rediscovers "divine flesh"

Iain Dale on the House of Lords

The beginning of the end for men?

Yellow Peril's unhealthy obsession

Labour's new eugenics

Hug-a-hoodie...

An Inspirational Party

Only fifty more months like June...

Different students, or more students?

No greater disincentive...

Rich take Oxford to cleaners to sweep poor away...

The dome was worth every penny...

Votes at sixteen...are they any different?

Why should London pay....

Co-existence or domination?

CPRE, Oxford's "Core Strategy" and popular futurology

June 06

The astounding arrogance of turncoats

Bill of Rights to Right all Human Wrongs?

Political memories...

You know you're getting on...

Land Value Tax for Scotland as Scottish Lib Dems go soft on Local Income Tax?

Just whose pips will squeak?

Ming to visit GITMO

Tories' incoherent criticism of Lib Dem tax plans

Surviving Climate Change and the Post-oil-age World with Community Land Trusts

Let our cities breathe!

Mind expansion - better the devil you know!

The Liberal alternative to curfews and dispersal orders?

Destroying our history

Low Tax Lib Dems? It could still happen...

Michael Brown versus Dave's donor Trevor Pears

May 06

In their own Green world

Do we ask too much of "superhuman" ministers

Land Value Tax – Let's not rule it out!

No Overall Control Freakery

Britain 'needs compulsory voting' (like a hole in the head)

Brown on Galbraith

April 06

The War on Weather: The Rules of the Game Need to Change

Land Value Tax, the fourth option

I just can't get excited about Michael Brown

Anti-social or criminal?

Blair Hair Day 2: The Sequel

Why "Blue" is least likely to be "Green"...

It is about housing, Frank, but your vision falls indecently short for Oxford

Hence from Blackbird Leys art thou banished

Why do we need SOCA again?

3rd April, Nineteen-Eighty-Four

Not an April Fool - Tim Worstall explains Land Value Tax...

March 06

Party loans: We might like to think it's a thing of the past...

Rare praise for ASDA

Why we need to repitch our fiscal strategies towards the next generation:

Smoking bans and property rights

Is this "Green" economics?

Coke vending machines?

The enemy is your neighbour: UK's "minutemen" are watching you

Balancing the books: a lesson in destructive economics.

A sinking ship? Perhaps...

Millibland's bog...

Land Value Tax and the Education debate

My new political heros: Fisher, Harris, Selden, Hoskyns, Joseph...Thatcher!

Teflon time for Tony again?

How much better an explanation do we need?

The poor and the dispossessed

Letter bug...

The Road To Guantanamo

OMG am I really a "Tory! Tory! Tory!"?

Power to the Parish!

Senior police have role in drugs debate

February 06

Adam Smith Institute against Planning Gain Supplement

New research is still no reason for cannabis crackdown

With friends like these...

The new hundred years war...

But the voters don't get a vote...

So to the postbox...

What does "Tax Shift" mean?

Why we want a "wonk"

Palace staff don't require protection from smoke...

Smoking ban - an interesting side-effect

Smoked out: at last, a fellow liberal

Elections bring out the worst...

The madness of UK land law

Unperturbed by Huhne win!

Heroin: what kills?

Legalisation not an open floodgate

January 06

Jock's Oxford Manifesto: 3. First, principles

Reinvigorating a European agenda with Huhne

Out with the old; in with Chris Huhne

Jock's Oxford Manifesto: 2. The Challenges facing Oxford

On sexuality

The money speaks

Blair's coke crackdown cobblers

Jock's Oxford Manifesto: 1. "Oxford Inspires"

A Personal Manifesto for Oxford

Barker II: Kate's return, and this time it's planning

Oatengate: Mark's departure mustn't let burglars off the hook

A challenge unmet?

Blogging attacked by Oxford Mail

Cannabis policy merely highlights the folly of prohibition

Why "Eco-tax" must include land

Fighting the flyposters

Chris Huhne for leader?

December 05

Smith protests too much on cash-points

Gordon Brown to make housing dearer...

November 05

Creative counting from city leaders of housing

County's Housing Consultation Sham

September 05

Land Value Tax would recapture lost parking revenue

Greens are wrong on Clarkson gong

Now is not the time to abandon Key Worker Housing group

How would CPRE meet housing need?

October 04

Land wealth should be taxed, but let's not wait till someone dies

Planning is an intensely political process